Current Mention

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D. C. · Jul 21, 1904

— A fire at Millington, Md., July 12, destroyed property to the value of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, and left two hundred people homeless and destitute.

— A dispatch dated at Sydney, New South Wales, July 12, reports the wreck of the steamer “Nemesis” in a gale off the Australian coast, with the loss of thirty-one lives.

— A dispatch from Manila reports a cloudburst in the hills northeast of that city, causing a flood which drowned two hundred people, and destroyed property to the extent of two million dollars.

— Among noted persons who have died the past week are Major Samuel M. Jones of Toledo, commonly known as “Golden Rule” Jones, whose death occurred July 12; and “Oom Paul” Kruger, president of the late Transvaal republic, who died at Clarens, Switzerland, July 14, from an attack of pneumonia. Mr. Kruger’s body will be buried in the Transvaal.

— An agitation for the discontinuance of Sunday work on public improvements in the District of Columbia, has been started by women of the Forest Glen Presbyterian church. Sunday work is being done on the new railway station, the Pennsylvania railway tunnel, and the reservoir. Contractors are quoted as saying that Sunday work is necessary in order to finish the work in contract time.

— A strike involving about sixty thousand men employed in the meat-packing industry in Chicago, St. Louis, Omaha, Kansas City, Fort Worth, and other Western cities, was begun July 12, to settle a controversy over wages between employers and the union. The cost of the strike is being largely paid by the public in the enhanced price of meat. Considerable rioting has attended the strike in Chicago, St. Paul, and Kansas City.

— But little reliable news has been received of late regarding the progress of events in the Russo-Japanese war, though rumors have been plentiful, among these being a report of Admiral Togo’s death, and of a great Japanese reverse at Port Arthur, with a loss to the latter of 30,000 men. It appears probable that the Japanese have been repulsed in a number of assaults on the fortifications at that place, with considerable loss. A naval battle off Port Arthur is also rumored, but with what result is not stated.

— A number of wrecks of railway excursion trains have occurred the past week, the most serious being at Midvale, N. J., July 10, and at Glenwood, Ill., July 13. At Midvale a regular passenger train ran into and telescoped the rear cars of an excursion train which had stopped to take water, seventeen persons being killed, and about fifty others injured. At Glenwood a picnic excursion train from Chicago ran into the rear of a freight train, twenty persons being killed and about twenty-five injured. At Labadie, forty-five miles west of St. Louis, July 10, a Missouri Pacific excursion train was thrown down an embankment by the derailing of the engine’s tender, thirty-eight persons being injured but none killed.